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The estates of parliament, having heard and considered the supplication of the heritors and other parishioners of the parishes of Monzievaird, Crieff and Comrie anent their present necessity as partly burnt, wasted and destroyed by the enemy and their whole goods and gear taken away by them and now visited by God with the plague of pestilence raging amongst them so that there is few or none free, the estates, for their present supply, give hereby warrant to Patrick Reid, keeper of the magazine of victual at Perth for the use of the public, to give and deliver out of that magazine 80 bolls of meal to James Drummond, fiar of Machany, Mr Patrick Murray, fiar of Ochtertyre, Mr David Drummond, minister at Crieff, and Mr George Murray, minister at Monzievaird, which 80 bolls of meal the estates ordain to be distributed to the persons of the aforesaid three parishes and amongst the parishioners of the same three parishes as the persons above-named (to whom the aforesaid meal is ordained to be delivered as said is) shall think fit and expedient. As also the said estates, for their further supply, give warrant that a voluntary contribution be collected for their use and supply out of the parishes unburnt and unwasted within the sheriffdom of Perth, within the which the three parishes above-written lie, as has been done in other shires where the same visitation of the plague of pestilence was, and this over and above the voluntary contribution which was collected by ordinance of the parliament for supply of the aforesaid parishes upon Sunday last at the kirk doors of St Andrews and at the parliament house there where preaching was made to the estates of parliament.